| Country Fever | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Rick Nelson |
| Cover: | Country Fever.jpg |
| Released: | April 17, 1967 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 28:53 |
| Label: | Decca |
| Producer: | Charles "Bud" Dant |
| Prev Title: | On the Flip Side |
| Prev Year: | 1966 |
| Next Title: | Another Side of Rick |
| Next Year: | 1967 |
Country Fever is the sixteenth studio album by American singer Rick Nelson, and his ninth for Decca Records, released on April 17, 1967, on Decca Records. which features Nelson's composition of "Alone" and a cover of Bob Dylan's "Walkin' Down The Line", Nelson's earliest Dylan cover.
The sessions also produced a couple of numbers taken from old Sun Records by Elvis Presley; "Mystery Train", which was included on the album.[1] He sampled the classic country catalog, including "You Win Again," "Funny How Time Slips Away," and "(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle Blow." "Alone" was a self-penned tune while "Walkin' Down the Line" was the first Bob Dylan song that he recorded.[2] These songs formed a kind of semi-autobiographical trilogy, as he sketched himself as a desolate but determined loner. Jimmie Haskell arranged the album and Charles "Bud" Dant produced it, this was the last of fifteen consecutive Nelson studio LPs, produced by Charles "Bud" Dant.
Richie Unterberger of AllMusic said that "Country Fever continued the country direction of Nelson's previous album, Bright Lights & Country Music, and the approach of each record was similarly weighted toward interpretations of country classics".[3]
Record Mirror called it "one of his consistent perfromaces" and stated that "His own compostition is more than honky-tonk can rare with treatments by long-time contry greats.[4]